Tools | U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit

Tools are available to help you manage your climate-related risks and opportunities, and to help guide you in building resilience to extreme events. Browse the list below, or filter by topic and/or tool functionality in the boxes above. To expand your results, click the Clear Filters link.

Giant storm waves splash above sea wall and the road is beginning to flood.

Adapting Stormwater Management for Coastal Floods

Communities can use this website to determine how the flooding of today and tomorrow can affect their stormwater systems.

Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service

This comprehensive suite of graphical forecast products shows a range of information on current and projected river levels for almost 4,000 stations in the contiguous United States.

Cal-Adapt

California residents and city and county planners can identify potential climate change risks in specific areas throughout the state and access easy-to-understand resources for local planning efforts.

Map of Puerto Rico with speckles of color indicating a rain forecast

Caribbean Coastal Ocean Observing System (CARICOOS) | An IOOS Regional Data Portal

Find marine and coastal weather and climate data, forecasts, and analyses for the Caribbean region.

Chucktown Floods: Adapting to Flooding in Charleston

Local resources to help people monitor and adapt to flooding in the Lowcountry of Charleston County, South Carolina.

Coastal Resilience Evaluation and Siting Tool (CREST)

Planners and natural resource managers can use this web tool to make informed decisions about the siting of restoration and resilience projects.

Creating Resilient Water Utilities - Storm Surge Inundation Map

Utilities can use this map to understand their potential for flooding. The inclusion of real-time storms and flood advisories helps water utilities assess flood risk and plan ahead to lessen the severity of flood damage.

Storm clouds loom along the coast of Atlantic City.

Environmental Resilience Tools Wizard

This online tool was created to help state and local emergency managers, environmental or health agencies, and anyone who may not be familiar with EPA resources that help build community resilience to disasters.

Great Lakes Observing System | An IOOS Regional Data Portal

The Great Lakes Observing System provides end-to-end data services that support science, policy, management, and industry in the Great Lakes.

Great Lakes Water Level Dashboard

Businesses and residents in the Great Lakes region can use this dashboard to visualize dynamic water levels and seasonal and long-term forecasts.

Gulf of Mexico Coastal Observing System (GCOOS) | An IOOS Regional Data Portal

This site provides on-demand information to benefit people, ecosystems, and the economy in the Gulf of Mexico’s coastal and open ocean waters.

Massachusetts Wildlife Climate Action Tool

Users in Massachusetts can access this tool to better understand the vulnerability of fish, wildlife, and natural resources to climate change, learn how to implement adaptation actions on the ground, and explore climate data and projections.

Mid-Atlantic Regional Association Coastal Ocean Observing System (MARACOOS) | An IOOS Regional Data Portal

MARACOOS and its partners track storms and collect and distribute data related to storms and other extreme events impacting the East Coast, covering the region from Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras.

Screen Capture from the National Stormwater Calculator

National Stormwater Calculator—Climate Assessment Tool

This desktop application provides estimates for the amount of rainwater and frequency of runoff anywhere in the United States. Its primary use is to inform site developers on how well they can meet a desired stormwater retention target with and without the use of green infrastructure.

Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems (NERACOOS) | An IOOS Data Portal

The mission of NERACOOS is to produce, integrate, and communicate high-quality information that helps ensure safety, economic, and environmental resilience and sustainable use of the coastal ocean.

Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems | An IOOS Regional Data Portal

This IOOS data portal provides a network of observing systems for the Pacific Northwest region, chiefly the Washington and Oregon areas.

Our Coast, Our Future

Coastal resource managers and planners in the San Francisco Bay region can use locally relevant, online maps and tools to explore, visualize, and anticipate vulnerabilities related to sea level rise and storms.

Pacific Island Sea Level Forecasts

This experimental product provides an outlook of monthly sea level anomalies for the next one to two seasons. We combine sea level forecasts with astronomical tide predictions to provide more accurate predictions of coastal water level compared to tide predictions alone.

Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model (SLAMM)

This open-source downloadable model uses digital elevation data and other information to simulate potential impacts of long-term sea level rise on wetlands and shorelines.

Map of the Pacific ocean with orange and purple areas indicating sea level anomalies

Sea Level Forecasts

This product provides an outlook of monthly sea level anomalies for the next one to two seasons. We combine sea level forecasts with astronomical tide predictions to provide more accurate predictions of coastal water level compared to tide predictions alone.

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